Anthony Atala — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS)
Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Chair, Dept of Urology at Wake Forest University
Creator of the first 3D bioprinters (Integrated Tissue and Organ Printing System or ITOP)
Developed the first lab-grown organ (a bladder) to be implanted into a human
Editor of 25 books, including 'Principles of Regenerative Medicine'
Serves on the editorial board of Rejuvenation Research and the SENS Research Foundation's research advisory board
Completed medical school at the University of Louisville and a fellowship at Harvard Medical School–affiliated Boston Children's Hospital

Biography

Anthony Atala is an American bioengineer, urologist, and pediatric surgeon. He serves as the W.H. Boyce professor of urology, the founding director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina. His research focuses on regenerative medicine, aiming to refurbish diseased or damaged tissue using the body's own healthy cells.

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